X-Sender: marks@maxwell.ee.washington.edu Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 21:50:04 -0700 To: WEAS516@aol.com, r.marks@ieee.org From: "Robert J. Marks II" Subject: Re: Am I Crazy? At 09:26 PM 5/4/99 EDT, WEAS516@aol.com wrote: >I'm 46 and grew up with "Gunsmoke". Tell me if I have a good memory. It seems >that Ken Curtis (as Festus) made a guest appearance on "Have Gun, Will >Travel". At the end of the episode Paladin rode away with Festus across his >saddle. Then "Gunsmoke" opened with Paladin dropping him off at Marshall >Dillon's office to have him introduced on that show? Is this correct or do I >have alzheimers? >By the way, I love this site. It's too bad TV no longer produces heroes like >Matt. He was a real TV hero. Keep up the great work. Good Memory! You're close. Ken Curtis did play a Festus-type fellow in Have-Gun-Will-Travel. The show is available from the Columbia House collection of HGWT. Paladin says Curtis stinks and in the end throws him in the river and says he even stinks worse when he's wet. The character Ken Curtis played on that show was very close to Festus - but was not named Festus. Richard Boone (Paladine) never appeared on Gunsmoke.